( January 13, 2025, 12:27 PM EST) -- SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York, ruling on motions from both sides following a jury’s $1,675,000 verdict for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a case in which the agency accused a distribution company of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to interview and hire a deaf applicant, applied the $300,000 statutory cap to the compensatory and punitive damages and partially granted the EEOC’s motion for a permanent injunction....